What to do with your Psychology Degree

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1 Open UP Study Skills What to do with your Psychology Degree Matthew McDonald and Susmita Das

2 What to do with your Psychology Degree

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4 What to do with your Psychology Degree The essential career guide for psychology graduates Matthew McDonald & Mita Das

5 Open University Press McGraw-Hill Education McGraw-Hill House Shoppenhangers Road Maidenhead Berkshire England SL6 2QL world wide web: and Two Penn Plaza, New York, NY , USA First published 2008 Copyright Matthew McDonald & Mita Das 2008 All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher or a licence from the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited. Details of such licences (for reprographic reproduction) may be obtained from the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd of Saffron House, 6 10 Kirby Street, London, EC1N 8TS. A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13: (pb) (hb) ISBN-10: (pb) (hb) Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data CIP data applied for Typeset by RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk Printed in Great Britain by Bell and Bain Ltd., Glasgow Fictitious names of companies, products, people, characters and/or data that may be used herein (in case studies or in examples) are not intended to represent any real individual, company, product or event.

10 1 Introduction Did you do a psychology degree because you were interested in the subject but are now considering what work you could do that utilises your knowledge and skills? Did you think you wanted to be a psychologist but have realised this isn t the career for you and are wondering what else there is? Are you unable to afford or unwilling to pay for the postgraduate study required to fulfil your first choice of career and want to know what the alternatives are? Are you a psychologist thinking of changing career and looking to identify other possibilities? Do you know which career you want in psychology and are wondering what steps you need to take to get there? If the answer is yes to any of these questions then this book will help you to identify the ideal job for you. Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes. It is concerned with human motivation, learning and emotions in order to determine how and why we interact with the world and each other in a particular way. Any occupation that involves a degree of human interaction can benefit from the input of psychological knowledge because human behaviour is fundamental to most aspects of our lives. There is now increased interest in psychological issues such as stress, personal development, mental illness, health, well-being, and management techniques. Consequently, a degree in psychology is an excellent qualification because it allows you to pursue a wide variety of interesting and fulfilling careers. Some of these are obvious, such as counselling and psychotherapy, while others are not so obvious, such as public policy, event management and outdoor education. This book provides information on 60 different occupations that are available to you. Based on real-life experiences, this book describes each occupation and the steps you need to take to get there. Each occupational description has been

11 2 INTRODUCTION researched by surveying psychology graduates from all over the UK who are currently employed in that occupation, so in effect each occupational profile is a mini case study providing information on how to get in and get on in your chosen occupation. Over 400 psychology graduates from UK universities were interviewed in order to get to the truth about each of the occupations described. Our research participants covered a wide range of people, from recent graduates just making their way in the world of work, to participants who graduated over 15 years ago and are now well established in their careers. The 60 occupational profiles covered in this book are by no means an exhaustive list. The aim of this book is to help you to think laterally about your transferable skills from your degree or previous occupations so you can use these to market yourself much more effectively in order to achieve your ideal job. We suggest that this book is useful for a range of people, but in particular: High school students interested in psychology if you are thinking about studying psychology at university or other higher education institutions, you may want to start getting some ideas of the kind of work you can expect to be able to do when you complete your degree. University students currently studying psychology you may have begun your degree with certain expectations about what you would like to do but may be finding that the reality is very different. This realisation is probably disconcerting and you may be seeking reassurance that there is definitely something out there that suits you. Not only is this book useful in helping you choose your future career, it can also be used as a guide to undertaking or finding work experience (also called work placements, practicums, field experience or internships), volunteer work, or casual/part-time paid work in an area related to your interests. This valuable work experience, while challenging, will be your first step toward a fulfilling career in the psychology field. Recent and not so recent graduates of psychology you may have graduated with your psychology degree but still be wondering what it is you actually want to do! Members of the British Psychological Society you may want to get a contemporary overview of career opportunities. Psychologists in career transition for various reasons you may be looking to change direction in your career, in order to accommodate a lifestyle change or a desire for fresh challenges in your life. Psychologists looking to broaden their horizons you may have been working in one particular field for a while and feel it s time to see what else is out there. Teachers, lecturers and career advisers working in high schools, colleges and universities you may be looking for a comprehensive resource to help you advise your students on the work experience or employment possibilities open to them with knowledge or a qualification in psychology. Mature-aged individuals looking to move into a psychology career you may

12 INTRODUCTION 3 have a degree and/or career in something quite different or may be a parent looking to enter or re-enter the workforce after raising a family. Psychology graduates from overseas institutions you may want information on how to pursue a psychology career in the United Kingdom. Whatever your situation, this book will provide you with information to help you make your career decisions, both now and in the future. What kind of work is right for you? Finding the kind of work that suits your skills, interests, personality, and lifestyle requirements is not such an easy thing to do. Choosing the right career generally involves four stages: 1. Self-awareness gathering information on your skills, abilities, interests, values, wants, employment environment preferences and lifestyle considerations. 2. Opportunity awareness gathering information on the industry and specific organisations that interest you, reality testing and cultivating a network of contacts. 3. Evaluation and decision making evaluating your career options, making a list of pros and cons and deciding on goals. 4. Taking action identifying the individual steps needed to achieve your career goals and developing strategies to achieve them. Self-awareness As a psychology student or graduate you are probably in the enviable position of being competent in different elements of self-analysis. It may seem quite obvious, but in order to identify your ideal job, you first need to know your strengths, weaknesses, personality, skills, values and interests. You need to be able to answer questions like these: Do I like dealing with members of the public? Do I like working alone or in an open-plan office as a part of a team? Do I want to work in a busy dynamic workplace, or a less pressured, more sedate environment? Do I want to earn a lot of money? Do I need autonomy and independence in how I work? Do I like a variety of tasks or do I want to be a specialist? Do I want to eventually become a manager with lots of responsibilities, or am I happy being a member of a team?

13 4 INTRODUCTION So before jumping into a choice of occupation, make sure you have undergone some form of reflection and self-assessment. How you go about this will depend on your own personal preferences. Three possible methods are: Psychometric and/or personality testing Sessions with a career adviser Working through exercises that identify traits, skills, values and interests. Once you have got more of an idea of the kind of work that suits your personality, you are in a position to make better career decisions and choices. Opportunity awareness Chapters 2 5 of this book will help you considerably with the second stage of this process. They list 60 possible occupations for graduates in psychology and contain an accurate and realistic description of what each of these potential occupations entail. This information has been sourced from surveys with psychology graduates currently working in these occupations. Each occupation has been profiled and the information gathered has been set out under a number of subheadings: Job title Job description Main tasks Enjoyable aspects of the work Less enjoyable aspects of the work Personality attributes best suited to this type of work Skills needed in this job Further qualifications/training required and work experience opportunities Employment opportunities Average salary Work environment Vacancies and further information. This information will provide the first step in your research into potential opportunities. Make a list of your preferences and eliminate those that don t interest you. Once you have an idea about the direction in which you would like to head, you will still need to research specific organisations and job roles more thoroughly. You can do this by searching the Internet using the numerous website addresses we have provided, looking at company websites, obtaining literature, contacting people within the industry and conducting information interviews with them. These contacts can be sourced through your fellow students, university alumni colleagues, your university lecturers, the British Psychological Society, or by making contact directly with individuals in organisations.

14 INTRODUCTION 5 Evaluation and decision making Once you have undertaken some form of self-assessment and identified possible opportunities, it is time to start putting together the information you have gathered and make decisions about the direction in which you wish to proceed. Weigh up the pros and cons. Do the career possibilities that you have shortlisted fit in with your skills, values and interests? The more information you gather about yourself, the more likely you are to make decisions that are the right ones for you. If you are still having difficulty deciding, talk with a careers adviser who can help you evaluate the information you have collected, suggest additional resources, and guide you through a decision-making process. At the end of this process you should be able to identify some goals for example, by the end of this month I will have spoken with three people who are currently doing the work I am interested in. Taking action Once you have made decisions and set some goals, it is then time for action. This could include: Writing an appropriately tailored CV Talking to people in the industry (information interviewing) Identifying sources of job vacancies Undergoing interview preparation Undertaking work experience Applying for jobs (casual, part-time, full-time). Finding the right career for you is a process. The more time and energy you invest in the process, the more likely you are to make choices that suit you, be successful in your career goals and have a fulfilling career. But don t think you have to do it all alone. Get support from friends, family, colleagues and professionals, who can make a big difference to the final outcome. How to get your ideal job and be successful at it Employability is a set of skills, understandings and personal attributes that make graduates more likely to gain employment and be successful in their chosen occupation. Given this definition, once you have identified the kind of work you are interested in, you should start thinking about how you are actually going to get there what steps you must take in order to achieve your career goal. Then you need to ask yourself how you are going to make a success of it. In order to answer these questions you have to know what employers are

15 6 INTRODUCTION looking for in their employees, and how to market yourself to employers to get your ideal job. The current world of work In the past, the relationship between employers and employees was based on an unwritten social contract. In return for good service and productivity, the employer offered lifetime employment with an assumed potential for promotions, regular increases in salary and good fringe benefits. Trade unions often secured this social contract and ensured its ongoing maintenance. Yet changes in the way governments around the world organised their economies meant that this social contract began to wither away. In its place came greater global competition, less government involvement and less collective bargaining. As a result virtually every type of organisation in the Western world has undergone significant changes. This includes downsizing, delayering (removing unnecessary layers of middle management), flexible contractual arrangements (such as part-time and short-term contracts and working from home) and outsourcing. Organisations no longer are able to offer a job for life nor want to be responsible for an employee s career development. With the workplace now in a constant state of flux, independence and self-sufficiency are the keys to your future employment security. More opportunities While competition has increased, there are now many more employment opportunities for psychology graduates than there were 30 years ago. Most of these new opportunities are in non-traditional areas as more and more employers realise the benefits of hiring workers with knowledge and skills in psychology. The world really is your oyster; you just need to be clear about what you want to do, be creative in the way you sell your skills, and flexible in the way you manage your career. The number of ways in which work can be done has grown and can include anything from traditional employment to various part-time and casual options, contracting, consulting and small business. An example of this is the portfolio career instead of working in one traditional full-time job, you can do up to three or four part-time jobs (including temporary jobs, freelancing, and self-employment) with different employers, or yourself as the employer. These add up to the equivalent of a full-time position. For example, you could work as a career adviser three days a week, write a regular column on career issues for the media, and teach as a visiting lecturer at a university or college for the other day of the week.

16 INTRODUCTION 7 How to manage your career The most important thing to realise is that you are fully responsible for your career, which is likely to change directions several times during your working life. In fact it is no longer expected that you will stay in one job indefinitely. This will mean that in order to be successful you need to become career resilient. Career resilience is defined as a person s ability to adapt their career to an ever-changing work environment, allowing them to maintain ongoing employability and to achieve work-life satisfaction. Some of the qualities needed to be career resilient include being able to effectively sell your skills, self-management, continuously gaining new knowledge and skills, being flexible and adaptive to change, being able to take responsibility, develop ideas, and a willingness to take on various roles in the one position. Work experience, work placements, practicums, field experience, internships, volunteer work and paid part-time or casual work Whatever you want to call it, the single most important activity that we identified in our study that helped graduates find their ideal job was undertaking some form of work experience. While some psychology programmes in the UK provide elective or core modules in this area, and thus a formal process to gain this vital experience, many programmes don t. In cases where they don t it is then down to you to approach an organisation to enquire about possible opportunities. The possibilities are numerous for both voluntary work and paid part-time or casual work. In other professions which require higher degree qualifications and experience you can work as an assistant alongside an experienced or qualified member of staff. A number of the participants in this study used this route to earn money while they were studying and to gain valuable work experience in their field of interest. In order to take advantage of these opportunities you need to take the time to research the possibilities and then approach the organisation directly don t wait for advertised positions. A useful book, although written for a US audience, is Brain Baird s Internship, Practicum, and Field Placement Handbook: A Guide for the Helping Professions (5th edition, Prentice Hall, 2007). What employers are looking for in a potential employee Employers now look for graduates who have more than just a degree. They are looking for someone with a range of skills, abilities and personal attributes. In fact, for most employers, a willingness to learn and adapt are more important than your degree-level knowledge. Employers are looking for people who can

17 8 INTRODUCTION learn and work independently, who can think critically, solve problems and are emotionally intelligent that is, they can communicate with a range of people, work as a member of a team, and are motivated and enthusiastic. Some of these skills you will develop through your degree, others will be developed outside your studies. A study of 139 UK managers identified a number of key skills that they are looking for in graduates, 1 these include Intellect including a range of attributes such as analysis, critique, synthesis and an ability to think things through in order to solve problems Knowledge understanding the basic principles of a subject discipline, general knowledge, knowledge of the organisation and commercial awareness, although in many organisations knowledge of something is much less important than the ability to acquire knowledge Attitude to learning a willingness and ability to learn and to continue learning, to appreciate that learning is an ongoing process Flexibility and adaptability be able to respond to change, to pre-empt change and ultimately lead change Self-regulatory skills self-discipline, time-keeping, ability to deal with stress, prioritisation, planning, and an ability to juggle several things at once Self-motivation ranging from being a self-starter to seeing things through to a successful conclusion, and including characteristics such as resilience, tenacity, perseverance and determination Self-assurance including self-confidence, self-awareness, self-belief, selfsufficiency, self-direction and self-promotion Communication written and verbal, formally and informally, with a wide range of people both internal and external to the organisation Interpersonal skills the ability to relate to and feel comfortable with people at all levels in the organisation, as well as a range of external stakeholders, to be able to make and maintain relationships as circumstances change Team work often in more than just one team, and to be able to readjust roles from one project situation to another in an ever-shifting work situation. If you can demonstrate to an employer that you have these skills, you are more likely to be successful in the competitive job market. The way to do this is through your transferable skills, that is, skills that are developed in one environment, such as your degree or work experience, which can then be transferred and used in another. 1 Harvey, L., Moon, S., & Geall, V. (1997). Graduates work: Implications of organisational change on the development of student attributes. Industry and Higher Education, 11(5),

18 INTRODUCTION 9 How to market yourself to get your ideal job There are many fine university graduates currently in the UK workforce who possess all the right skills, attitudes and interests for their chosen field; however, they never succeed in finding their ideal job because they fail to market themselves effectively, either to employers or their clients. The first task of learning how to market yourself successfully is to think laterally about your skills. You may think that upon graduating, you have gained a lot of knowledge about psychology, and this is of course true. However, a psychology graduate could potentially work in a diverse range of occupations that do not carry the title psychologist because the generic skills acquired while studying psychology transfer readily to many spheres of work. These skills include research skills (information gathering), oral and written communication, numeracy, computer literacy, time management, problem solving, group work, independent work and independent learning. It is these transferable skills that, when correctly marketed by closely matching them to the employer s needs and job specifications, will help you get your ideal job, whatever it may be. According to the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education 2 the transferable skills gained from a psychology degree include being able to: Communicate effectively effective communication involves developing a cogent argument supported by relevant evidence and being sensitive to the needs and expectations of an audience. This is accomplished through specific demands to write both essays and scientific reports, and through experience in making oral presentations to an audience. The standard of written language should be at a proficient level with respect to grammar, punctuation, spelling, formatting and sentence construction. Comprehend and use data effectively this is accomplished through the research training that a degree in psychology provides, such as understanding, analysing, and presenting complex data sets (quantitative and qualitative) and being able to appraise and synthesise large amounts of data and scientific literature. Use computers psychology students are introduced to, and become familiar with computers early in their training and will display, at the very least, skills in the use of word processing, databases, Internet searching and statistical software packages. Retrieve and organise information effectively psychology graduates will be familiar with collecting and organising stored information found in scholarly books, journal collections, and through computer and Internet sources. 2 The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (2007). Subject benchmark statement Psychology. Retrieved 12 December 2007 from

19 10 INTRODUCTION Handle primary source material critically. Engage in effective team work, including some elements of leadership. Solve problems and reason scientifically the research process which is at the centre of studying psychology enables graduates to identify and pose research questions, to consider alternative approaches to their solutions and to evaluate outcomes. Make critical judgements and evaluations the need to take different perspectives on issues and problems, to evaluate them in a critical, sceptical manner to arrive at supported conclusions; all of which is emphasised and taught throughout a psychology degree. The importance of looking for similarities and general principles to increase the power of the analysis is also stressed. Be sensitive to contextual and interpersonal factors the complexity of the factors that shape behaviour and social interaction will be familiar to psychology graduates and will make them more aware of the basis of problems and interpersonal conflict. They should also be more sensitive to the importance of enhancing cooperation to maximise the effectiveness of individual skills as shown in group work and team building. Become more independent and pragmatic as learners taking responsibility for one s own learning and skill development is increasingly expected throughout a psychology degree where an emphasis on learning to learn is stressed. In particular, psychology degrees normally culminate in the completion of an independent, empirical inquiry where a pragmatic approach to a time-limited project is required. There are other transferable skills that can be added to the list above, but these represent the most important ones when applying for a job. Transferable skills are also developed from previous occupations, voluntary work, leisure activities, and raising a family. In all these areas of your life you are developing or maintaining skills which can be marketed as desirable to a potential employer. When writing a CV or completing an application form for a particular occupation, ensure that, using your degree subject knowledge and your transferable skills, you are able to closely match the requirements as outlined in a job specification by providing specific examples of how you meet the criteria listed. This will greatly enhance your chances of being successful. How to use this book As previously noted, the occupations listed in this book are by no means an exhaustive list of what a psychology graduate is trained or able to do. Therefore, in order to guide our decisions about what occupations to include in this book we used two criteria:

20 INTRODUCTION 11 Frequency the most common occupations that occurred amongst our sample of 407 research participants; and Relatedness to psychological knowledge and skills our study revealed that psychology graduates work in a diverse range of occupations. However, we included only those occupations where knowledge and skills gained from a psychology degree were relevant to the occupation in some way. As you read through the occupations listed in Chapters 2 5 you will note that some are specific and limited in scope, that is, they exist in only one organisational setting, while others are much broader, applying skills for a range of different organisations and settings. In either case you can use this real-world information to make decisions about your future career direction and the steps required to get there. Occupational profiles As previously mentioned, each of the occupations presented in this book is set out according to a standardised reporting format made up of 11 subheadings. While the majority of these subheadings are self-explanatory, there are four that we would like to provide further clarification on in order for you to get as much out of the book as possible. Further qualifications/training required and work experience opportunities This section is designed to provide you with information concerning the qualifications and/or training required to work in a particular occupation. In some of the occupations further qualifications and training are obligatory, while in others they are not. Where postgraduate qualifications are required, such as a master s degree, then it is important to keep in mind that these programmes require self-funding. So you will need to ensure that you can afford the costs of tuition, the time off work (if this is required), and that you can combine a full-time work with part-time study. For those students or graduates wishing to become psychologists, this section also provides information on the process of gaining Chartered status. In those occupations where further qualifications and training are not obligatory, we have been guided by our research participants experiences and our own research into the particular occupation. This section also provides information on possible work experience opportunities, whether these are voluntary or paid in the form of part-time or casual work. Accreditation / registration / chartered status Many students who contemplate or start a degree in psychology often do so with the aim of becoming a psychologist. However, it may come as a surprise that only approximately 15% of psychology graduates go on to become

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